Working On A Quirky Graph

I’ve been bargaining with Ginger. I’m not sure how well it works when you bargain with a cat, but sometimes you simply don’t have a choice with who you are going to talk to. Especially if you are a single remote worker. You are either going to talk to the windows, the pets or the plants. The minutes that one of those three begin to answer, you need to leave the house. Or exorcise the house. It is one of those two options. Since I’ve no one answering me but myself, I believe that I’m safe from any upcoming sage induced cleaning.

Ginger has been having some difficulty figuring out what she wants to eat. I’m lucky, I suppose, that Gracie is willing to help clean plates, but even she can’t eat everything that Ginger refuses. We are whittling away at the food she refuses, but the weather had put a crimp in some of my options. She has been stopping in the office several times today to try and badger me into feeding her more. I laugh when I purchase the larger box canned food and they confidently state that the package will last 30 days or longer. They clearly haven’t met Ginger.

When I was younger, I read a romance novel that was set in the 1800s and was full of fainting women and polite insults and insecurities often found throughout the centuries. In this particular novel, (and I apologize that I don’t have the name of it at the tip of my brain), the protagonist has a fairy godmother who has decided that everything in the MCs life will be fixed if she would suddenly be a size 2. She waves her wand and the wanders away to spy on her old friends and eat bonbons. At the time, what the book did a poor job of illustrating was that it doesn’t matter what size you are, but what kind of person you are. I want to say that was the message the author was going for, but they did a sloppy job if it was. Now, now that I’m older and have had lived, I can see that the fairy godmother has gifted the poor MC with an overactive thyroid! It never fails to amuse me when I look to the past and reevaluate what I had read, experienced or said with an adult eye. I’m often amused, but unfortunately, I’m also sometimes disappointed. Sometimes it is in myself, sometimes it is in the situation and sometimes it is with the people I’d spent time with. I know not to live in the past because nothing can be fixed there, but there are days when I wonder if I truly learned how to better.

I worked at the coffee shop this weekend. So far, it hasn’t really bothered me that I haven’t had a day off in over a week. I am in no position to complain because there are so many that have to work more than 2 jobs to make enough to live on. The days weren’t bad, but I was reminded that I haven’t been doing much but sitting in a chair on a regular basis. It has been warming up, but I will need to really get out and start walking again. The days went fairly well, I had several customers who were happy to see me, one car, in fact, was ready for me when I got to the window. Apparently I had informed them that I read m/m romance and they wanted recommendations. The passenger was sitting there, fingers at the ready, typing the names as quickly as he could while I through titles out to them. I hope they got what they were looking for, as I gave them about 15 different authors and my favorite series in each of them. Another person told me that I always made her happy when she came by and I was working. That was my last weekend at that store so I hope those customers got what they were hoping for from me. This weekend I will be working at my regular store, while they try and put it back together. But I will also be doing it at a higher pay so I cannot complain.

We are looking at taking a trip with the family soon as well. The kids have spring break so the family may head south a bit just to see if we can get away. It will be the first vacation I will have been able to take since October 2019. The pandemic did shut a lot of things down, but I wouldn’t have had the funds to take a trip regardless. I need to work on my pride a bit. I’m still not comfortable being unable to make snap decisions, but I have to get over it.